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Archive for July, 2008

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on VMware ESX (finished)

July 30th, 2008

As I pointed out in my past posts, I was having some weird errors with SLES10 regarding mounting CD images inside the guest (as well, as it turned out, on the physical hardware).

Now, finally, after about a week or so Novell finally released an updated kernel package today. So the error per se is fixed, I can use my CD drives again, as well as update my virtual machines by means of virtual center, without the trickery of copying the linux.iso from /vmimages/tools to the guest and mount it by means of mount -o loop.

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Yet another VMware error

July 30th, 2008

Today I was moving a pretty standard SLES10 virtual machine to another host, when the migration dialog showed me this:

fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended

fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended

And if you now think, the virtual machine is something special take a look at those settings:

Virtual machine configuration

Virtual machine configuration

I don’t know what to think about that error message. Googling for it doesn’t reveal that much about it. If anyone out there got an idea, I’m open for suggestions.

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Fixing vmkernel symlinks

July 30th, 2008

Since I do happen to be in the situation pretty often where the kernel inside a VM is newer than what VMware currently has in their tools (as in the SUSE kernel is newer than the binary modules built by VMware), here’s a quick reminder for myself on how to to fix the .ko symlinks.

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for file in /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/misc/*.ko ; \
do
 rm $file && \
 ln -s /lib/modules/$( uname -r )/misc/${file/.ko/.o} $file \
done

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